The Results of Statistical Research of the Activities of the World’s Largest Gold Mining Companies

The article presents the main results of statistical research activities of the world’s largest gold mining companies, such as the capitalization of the largest gold producers; revenue growth campaigns in 2016 due to the increase in the price of gold; the focus on the maintaining of the current production levels and the increase in production while maintaining reserves at a stable level; the stability of the sectoral investment demand; depletion of deposits with a high gold content in the ore; the low level of investment in the development of new deposits, with the growth in average costs per ounce of extracted metal and reduced prices margins; lower costs for exploration and engineering activities; a steady decline in expenditure on technical re-equipment and development of new deposits, increasing the production volumes of the precious metal; the decline trend in industry capital expenditures.

финансовые показатели, крупнейшие производители золота, игроки золотодобычи, месторождения, горнодобывающие предприятия, рост цены на золото, структура спроса на золото, инвестиционный спрос, капитальные вложения, капитализация отрасли, объемы торговли фьючерсами на драгметалл, выручка золотодобывающих компаний, средневзвешенная цена реализации золотодобывающими компаниями, financial indicators, largest producers of gold, players of gold mining, gold mines, mining, rising gold prices, structure of demand for gold, investment demand, capital investments, capitalization, volumes of futures trade for precious metals, revenues of gold mining companies, weighted average exercise price of the gold mining companies

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